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...Almanac's authors first met in the mid-1960s as fellow staffers on the Harvard Crimson. Michael Barone, 27, a Democrat who is now a lawyer in Detroit, has been a demographics adept since he was seven. "I can still remember the excitement of coming across the census figures for 1940 and 1950," he says. "It was like nothing else existed." His collaborators: Douglas Matthews, 27, a liberal Republican who is now studying law at Harvard, and Grant Ujifusa, 29, a political independent and third-generation Japanese American, who is now taking a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown...
...prisoners and even their own wounded. In three sites near the city of Khulna, great piles of human skulls and skeletons led observers to estimate that 100,000 people died in that area alone. To determine the full extent of the carnage, Mujib has ordered a house-to-house census throughout the country...
...electing a President, the black vote is simply too pivotal for either party to ignore. Although, according to the Census, blacks compose only about 10 to 11 per cent of the population and accounted for only 8 per cent of the total vote cast in '68, one out of every five votes Humphrey received in '68 was a black vote, and 12 per cent of Nixon's total were votes by blacks...
...evidence in the NCI survey to suggest that the difference between the races is based on genetics. Diet, environment, access to medical treatment, work patterns-all these may be involved. But Bruno stresses that much more research will be necessary before firm conclusions can be drawn from the cancer census...
...cannot think of themselves as real individuals with the same rights as their elders. And yet 54 per cent of the voting age population in Cambridge are between 18 and 34. Approximately 80 per cent of the 18-34 year olds do not live with relatives in Cambridge isee Census publication PC(V2)-23 (Revised)). Compare these figures with the 7 per cent of the voting age population that are black. Why shouldn't the 40 per cent that are the young who have not lived here all their lives also be a strong neighborhood? does it really matter that...